Researchers in the UK have extracted and sequenced the oldest Egyptian DNA to date from an individual who lived more than ...

When people think of DNA, they usually think of genes, the parts that code for proteins and drive inherited traits. But there ...

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...

Who really won the race to decode the human genome? Inside the cut-throat competition that pushed forward the decoding of the ...

The promise of genome editing to help understand human diseases and create new therapies is vast, but technological limitations have limited advancement of the field. While existing editing ...

With a skin sample from a 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth, scientists are gaining new insights into what made the animals tick. The findings could also help controversial de-extinction efforts.